No, unfortunately it seems to be a bug in Linux's APM. The Aopen board uses
an MVP3 chipset which is more than capable of automatically powering down the
system; in fact, it is also capable of turning the system on (wake-on-modem
or wake-on-event)!!! However, auto power off, whether built into the system
or accomplished with poweroff, causes a crash with this board.
Surjit Bains wrote:
> This is very much dependant on whether your machine has the ability to
> soft off/on and this is normally built into the power management.
>
>
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> I usually shutdown with the following command, which works (e.g., does
> not
> crash but correctly halts the CPU and system after shutdown):
>
> shutdown -h now
>
> As you correctly note, this does *not* poweroff the system (for which
> you
> need to use the -p switch, as I recall). Unfortunately, any attempt at
> autopoweroff produces the system crash you noted in your earlier post.
>
> Alessio Isaja wrote:
>
> > ...hmm..wait, what do you mean with halt?
> > Does the machine completely poweroff? I mean that the main power
> supply
> > poweroff itself..
> > I know that the 'poweroff' command uses the '-p' switch of 'halt'
> > command..
> > do you confirm?
> > Ciao,
> > Alessio
>
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